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Consortium and United Defense Industries were awarded a contract for over $ 26 million for the System Development and Demonstration (SDD) phase of the Gladiator. In 2007, six pre-production models were manufactured and the next step was to produce several hundred in production. The US Marines elected not to go into production with the units. These six prototypes were sent to the Army and later five of the six were placed into a CRADA between the Army and Cybernet Systems Corporation. Two of these units were refitted to full autonomous operations under a contract to develop the Unit-to-Unit Autonomous Resupply Vehicle (U2UARV). Among other changes to the Gladiator, the weapons platforms were removed and replaced with interfaces to carry JMIC pallets (Joint Modular Intermodal Containers).
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Gladiator CVMs were used to develop and judge TUGV capabilities, requirements, and TTTTP with the input from the CVM program, and an RFP for Gladiator production went out to the industry. Upon the approval of the new design on February 7, 2005, Carnegie Mellon University's National Robotics
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